2 Corinthians 12:11
Good News Translation
I am acting like a fool--but you have made me do it. You are the ones who ought to show your approval of me. For even if I am nothing, I am in no way inferior to those very special "apostles" of yours.

New Revised Standard Version
I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

Contemporary English Version
I have been making a fool of myself. But you forced me to do it, when you should have been speaking up for me. I may be nothing at all, but I am as good as those super apostles.

New American Bible
I have been foolish. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to these “superapostles,” even though I am nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

become.

2 Corinthians 1:6 Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

2 Corinthians 11:1,16,17 Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do bear with me. . . .

for in.

2 Corinthians 12:12 Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

2 Corinthians 11:5 For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.

1 Corinthians 3:4-7,22 For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and another: I am of Apollo: are you not men? What then is Apollo and what is Paul? . . .

Galatians 2:6-14 But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man): for to me they that seemed to be some thing added nothing. . . .

though.

Luke 17:10 I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

1 Corinthians 3:7 Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

1 Corinthians 15:8-10 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine. . . .

Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

Context
Concern for the Corinthians
10For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful. 11I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. 12Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

1 Corinthians 3:7
Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 3:1
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

2 Corinthians 5:13
For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 11:5
For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.

2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again (Let no man think me to be foolish: otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little):

2 Corinthians 12:6
For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me.

Galatians 2:6
But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man): for to me they that seemed to be some thing added nothing.

Galatians 2:9
And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision:

Galatians 6:3
For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

2 Corinthians 12:10
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